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Form C, The Efficiency Statement and What Judges Expect to See
The Form C, also called the allocation order, is the order that the court makes at the same time as issuing the Form A. Well, that is interesting, you may be thinking. Bear with me, dear reader because I now mention the Financial Remedy Portal versus Fami…
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- Efficient Conduct
16/12/2022
Valuing Pensions on Divorce: CMX v EJX
Cases involving pension commentary are rare from the Family Court at High Court level, and so it was with great interest I found myself digesting the judgment by Moor J in the recent case of CMX v EJX (French Marriage Contract) [2022] EWFC 136…
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- Pensions on Divorce
- Valuations
13/12/2022
Pre-Nuptial Agreement Drafting: Is the Profession Earning ‘an Honest Shilling’?
IntroductionIn the same year when the Law Commission published its report Matrimonial Property, Needs and Agreements and recommended that there be ‘statutory confirmation of the contractual validity of marital agreements’ (1.32), Coleridge J, in his addre…
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- Pre-Nuptial Agreements
- Costs
- Nuptial Agreements
05/12/2022
Freezing Injunction – Shaky Application: on Thin Ice? J v H [2022] EWFC 133
Peel J was faced with an application for a freezing injunction by the husband seeking to restrain the wife from dealing with her overseas assets. The application had passed through the urgent applications judge in mid October, and by the time of the heari…
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- Freezing Injunctions
28/11/2022
Have We Been Getting It Wrong for the Past 75 Years? Privacy, Secrecy and the Financial Remedies Court
The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley starts with one of the most celebrated opening lines in literature:‘The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.’Historically, the same could be said of the Family Division, where a husband or…
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- Publicity and Confidentiality
22/11/2022
Cryptoassets – Disarray and Definition
Another interesting week in the world of crypto.
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- Crypto
14/11/2022
Evaluating the Government's Response to the Women and Equalities Committee Rights of Cohabiting Partners Inquiry
Dissecting the Government's response to the Rights of Cohabiting Partners Inquiry Report and assessing its impact on the campaign for cohabitation reform.
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- Cohabitation
- Marriage
- Education
07/11/2022
A Review – Family Financial Arbitration: A Short Guide
Emily Ward reviews Family Financial Arbitration: A Short Guide by Gavin Smith.
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- arbitration
- Book Review
17/10/2022
Market Turbulence and Cash Equivalent Values (CEVs) for Defined Benefit Pensions, Q3 2022
If you have a CEV for a case which is only 3 or 4 months old, it is very likely that it will have fallen and will be out of date.
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- Pensions on Divorce
10/10/2022
Law Commission – Contempt of Court Project: Memorandum by Sir James Munby (26 September 2022)
Sir James Munby raises eight topics which the Law Commission might consider as part of its Contempt of Court Project.
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- Anonymity
- Contempt
07/10/2022
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